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Message: [QUOTE="Gordon Burditt, post: 2491519"] And perhaps most important, there was no standardized way of That's great, now if only it could have been made to work for stuff like the standard text editor, so you don't have the situation that B8:filename.typ works on your system, fails with an error on some other programs, or worse, since error-checking was never a strong point of CP/M programs, quietly use B:filename.typ in the current user area instead, or something else. There's a lot to be said for consistency. I remember seeing *at least*: <drive><user>:filename.typ <drive>:filename.typ;<user> <drive>:filename.typ.<user> and the user number wasn't always in decimal. [/QUOTE]